High School Cliques Essay

A clique is something everyone has heard of, they are groups of people that share the same interests or ideals. When you hear the word clique you generally think of the cliché high school cliques of the Jocks, Nerds, Cheerleaders, Etc. However, you can have Cliques in many other situations such as in the office, church, or even within your friend groups as I did in tenth grade with my friends. Of those that I listed I will talk about being cliquey in friend groups and how it’s a bad idea.

If you separate into cliques in a group of friends you can start to feel tension between the mini groups which hurts the group as a whole. When I was in tenth grade there was a problem of Cliques within my friends, everyone was splitting off into groups of two to three occasionally more, and often people were in multiple mini groups, but there was always one group that there could only really be 2 people in and that was best friends and there were 7 of us so one person was always left out and that person was generally me. I tried repeatedly to try and have everyone interact more with each other but they all wanted to hang out with their one friend and sometimes they would get mad and there would be a lot of tension with in the group so at some points I dint think that we would be friends still. Somehow, we managed to stop being quite so cliquey and we are still friends.

Imagine you’re at school and you are very smart but you enjoy sports and you excel in both areas but neither group will accept you because they think that you don’t belong because for, for the sporty people they think you’re a nerd and for the nerds they think you are more of sporty person. You would feel left out, or Imagine that you have a bunch of friends from one of your classes but you aren’t in theater with the rest of them and you feel left out and excluded from the rest of the group. And this exclusion really doesn’t do well for groups of friends when one or more is